Can A Mother Transmit HIV To Her Baby

I am a foster care provider and have been approached to take a 10 month old baby that has been born to an HIV+ mother. This child has been tested twice and both time been negative for HIV. Is there a chance that this child will develop the virus...

...months of age. You don't mention what type of testing was done or when the testing was done. If PCR testing was done on your baby and your baby had 2 or more negative tests after 2 months of age, your baby would be considered uninfected.
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...Fatima Koshokova, director of the nongovernmental group Rainbow, which provides free legal assistance to people living with HIV/AIDS. "The husbands of many of these women leave when they learn the diagnosis, and these women are left alone with...
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...three groups: one in which the mother alone received antiretroviral therapy for the first seven months after the birth of the baby, another in which the infants were given nevirapine ... for seven months, and a third, control group, in which...
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... The Canadian Pediatric AIDS Research Group reports that 150 to 175 babies are born to HIV-positive mothers in Canada each year. Proper treatment can reduce a mother's chance of transmitting the virus from 30 percent
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...the 2006 PMTCT guidelines, there were insufficient data supporting the use of ARVs to prevent HIV transmission from mother to baby during breastfeeding. Since then, several clinical trials have shown the efficacy and acceptability of prophylaxis...
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...[Image] Photo by THOMAS MICHALSKI April Wardlow, executive director of AIDS Partnership, said many people dont even know they have HIV/AIDS. PINELLAS COUNTY Many high school students, both male and female, have become more promiscuous in the...
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...infected with the virus. If the mother takes certain drugs during pregnancy, she can significantly reduce the chances that her baby will get infected with HIV. If health care providers treat HIV-infected pregnant women and deliver their babies by...
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